Before Focus, Jan Akkerman was in the Group “Brainbox” and did a cover of Gershwins “Summertime”
I got a partial recording of that song on my reel to reel tape recorder in 1970. It haunted me until Napster came out around the year 2000 and I searched and download as many versions of Summertime I could in order to find it. I found it at about version #150. By then I had a new hobby. Today I have about 1900 versions of that song, all started by Jan Akkerman and Brainbox.

I also remember the first time I heard Focus do “Hocus Pocus”
It was amazing, and I wondered what they would call their second song.

They are not so many institutions that have disappointed me. Youtube are very close to the border, after which I will forget that they exist. There are many, many dead links to them… However I appreciate the free services, they still provide.

the decades where people wrote their own compositions, wrote their own lyrics, performed their own instruments en sung their own songs and brought it to the masses by touring year after year…that deserves the riches stars earn….now it’s about what pretty ass can match this switchflipping song to go viral and earn millions with an afternoons worth of work.
Robert Rijkers from Youtube comments…

Here it is just a crumbs of cake of the infinites 70s…

I like this format – only a small part of each track, just to reminder.

I am so glad i an not growing up on the garbage they play today, my collection span from 1928 to 1980, and the types from Vivaldi to Metallica, but as a Dane with a working mind i have been listening to a lot of blues.

Over the years, I have liked and probably forgot many bands and songs, but iconic Tobacco Road has its own place in my mind since I’ve heard it as a teenager performed by Edgar Winter:

and in concert with brother Johnny:
I still remember how I found Johnny, looking for who the best solo guitar performer was then – Jimi, Ritchie, John McLaughlin, etc.
Always in the first ten of the Blues Hall of Fame…
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